Although Chuck and a few others were gifted amateurs, come to that.

So much of it was done by gifted amateurs, wasn't it?

As was customary, the beginning dances were exhibitions by professionals or gifted amateurs.

Players in the Academy come from a wide range of backgrounds including teachers, gifted amateurs, students, talented school children and professional players.

All were at the least gifted amateurs in the science of reading minds; Andrea Price was one of these.

"Those who aren't professional are very gifted amateurs and with them I get an opportunity to play material that I want to rehearse."

"We're gifted amateurs in that department," Mr. Lewis said.

Well this myth has now being destroyed - you couldn't dignify this lot with the label of 'gifted amateurs'.

Collins also used gifted amateurs to solve his somewhat earlier mystery novel, The Woman in White (1859).

Despite their fearsome reputation, Alorns are at best only gifted amateurs, largely because their rank is hereditary.

Stocked with Brian Leetch and many other gifted amateurs, the American squad played an exciting, attacking style.

This came at a critical time in the history of science, its transformation from what was called natural philosophy, often practiced by gifted amateurs, to a professional enterprise.

His images suffer in comparison to those of other gifted amateurs whose vocations lay elsewhere, like August Strindberg and Arnold Schoenberg.

In addition to gifted amateurs, the artists represented include Joseph Nash, Franz Nachtmann, and Eduard Gaertner.

Relatively easy to learn and adaptable to a myriad of styles, from early music to Baroque to jazz, most of its practitioners are classified as amateurs, often gifted amateurs.

Like Alleyn but unlike earlier gifted amateurs such as Wimsey, Campion or Miss Marple, both Dalgliesh and Morse are professional policemen.

Almost the last of the gifted amateurs to hold their own among scientific professionals, his considerable intellect also allowed him to provide clear analysis of administrative problems, which he tackled in conciliatory style.

He was one of the most gifted amateurs ever to assist Yorkshire, and had he been able to spare time to play cricket regularly, he might have made a name for himself in the first-class game.

The group, which was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Cold Spring, N.Y., took its lead from a highly popular British program run by the National Gardens Scheme, in which gifted amateurs open their gardens to the public for pleasurable browsing.